Do you know your baseball movies?

Published 10:05 pm, Saturday, October 13, 2012

Here, we are, smack dab in the middle of the baseball playoffs. Besides the Triple Crown (the horse racing, not the Miguel Cabrera), Saratoga and March Madness, this is my favorite time of the year.

If you aren't in the mood for fall baseball yet, I'll try to get you there with a little bit of a quiz. We're talking baseball and the movies. While most of the big screen stories about our national pastime were on par with "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians," there were some web screen gems.

And there were plenty of hardball flicks that had memorable lines.

So, who said it? If you get all of them right, you win nothing. And I highly doubt that anyone out there in Capital Region land will get all of these right.

You can name the actor or the character played. Or both. Oh, and the movie, too. Good luck, and play ball! (Answers are below).

1. "Yeah, yeah, you can hit the curveball."

2. "I pay you to get on first, not get thrown out at second."

3. "People don't start playing ball at your age, they retire!"

4. "Today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth." (If you don't know this, go read the comics).

5. "I coulda been better. I coulda broke every record in the book."

6. "I ... must ... kill ... the ... queen."

7. "We just don't recognize life's most significant moments while they're happening. Back then, I thought, "Well, there'll be other days." I didn't realize that that was the only day."

8. "Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and molly-coddles had better stay out. ... It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest."

9. "Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to Yankee Stadium."

10. "There's no crying in baseball." (This is another meatball. Easy)

11. "I make the league minimum."

12. "From here on in, I rag nobody."

13. "Yeah. From what I hear, you couldn't hit water if you fell out of a (bleeping) boat."

14. "Hats for bats, keep bats warm."

15. "If you build it, he will come." (We'll end on a simple one. Thanks for playing!)